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Brahmapur local center of the Institution of Engineers (I) is one of the
94th Local/State Centre that are set up and functioning
throughout our country BHARAT that is India, with the main center head
quarter at Calcutta having been set up under the Royal chapter under
BritishRule during the year 1925. This Brahmapur Local center BLC,IE(I)
was set up in the year 1996
At Brahmapur (Ganjam)
catering the needs of Engineers of all disciplines (nearly15 ) as
Existing both in Private and Public sector including Government engineers
, located in the South Orissan districts of Ganjam , Gajapati, Phulbani
and Boudh. This is one of the four local
Centers
beside one State center located at the state capital
Bhubaneswar
. The other three local centers are located in order of seniority at
Rourkela
, Sunabedha, and Angul.
The
Brahmapur local center was inaugurated by Er. Muthu Raman, the M.D.of
TISCO Of the then proposed 10 million ton export oriented modern steel
plant being set up at Gopalpur on sea near Brahmapur during 1996. Er
S.N.Panigrahy F.I.E Chief
Engineer(W.R), Retd. Of Govt. of Orissa was the first Chairman of this BLC,
while Er. Sudarshan Panda MIE, a young and dynamic engineer working in th
Auro Consulttancy of Pondichery was the charter Hony. Secretary. This duo
along with a team of Executive committee members of various disciplines
elected as per the IEI-Rules and Regulations, continued functioning
gaining strength from the local engineer brothers and members, conducting
the various technical activities of the center successfully with their
experience. During the next term of two sessions of 1998 and 2000 , the
same duo continued as Chairman and Honorary Secretary. With the departure
of Er. S.N.Panigrahy to
Bhubaneswar
in the mid term, Er T.R.K.Rao FIE principal of
Berhampur
Engineering
School
(Retd.), who was a Charter Committee Member was installed as the Chairman
for the remaining part of the term i.e., 1998-2000, where as Er. S.Panda
continued as the Honorary Secretary. This team of Rao and Panda closed by
the end of 2000 and a new team came up with Er. T.R.K.Rao FIE, continuing
as the Chairman and Er. S.N.Rath, MIE, a retired Executive Engineer of
R&B taking over as the Honorary Secratory. Currently for the term of
the session of 2002 – 2004, a new team was elected with Er.P.Surya
Narayana Rao, FIE, Additional Director of Industries and Technical
Education, Orissa (Retd.) as the Chairman and ER. Raghunandana Muni, MIE,
P.A. (Tech.) to the Suptd. Engg. Lift Irrigation of W.R Dept. of Govt. of
Orissa was elected as the Honorary Secretary with the team of Executive
Committee Members of around Twenty One including the Co-Opted two members
and Ex-Officio four members. The center celebrates every year the World
Telecom Day in collaboration with the BSNL Berhampur division, the World
Environment Day, jointly with the I.R.E. Ltd. Mattikhalo, Chattrapur and
the Water Recourses Day with the participation of the Water Resources
Department for Govt. of Orissa.
During
16th February 2004 the BLC, I.E.I for the first time
successfully conducted a ALL INDIA SEMINAR duly encouraged by the Chemical
Engineering Division of the I.E.I Head Office on the topic “ROLE OF
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING IN UTILIZATION OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES” –
jointly along with the Chemical Engineering Department of The Jagganath
Institute of Technology and Management (J.I.T.M) at Paralakahemundi under
Gajapati District Orissa.
A second all
India
seminar is also finalized to be held at Brahmapur in collaboration with
the I.R.E (I)Ltd. A Govt. of India undertaking under the Atomic Energy
Commission on the topic – “ VALUE ADDITION TO THE ZIRCON BASED
CHEMICAL AND OTHER INDUSTRIES” on the 11th and 12th
of February 2005 at. Brahmapur. According to the guide lines of the
Institutions of Engineers (INDIA) circulated to all the local / State
centers, the BLC of I.E.I has constituted an – “ ENERGY CONSERVATION
MISSION” in this local center, involving many retired senior engineers
who all are settled down at Berhampur and companies like SOUTH CO. etc.
and Govt. Departments like Department of Energy and Public undertakings
like GRIDCO. etc. This cell is functioning under the Chairmanship of Er.
P.S.Rao, FIE, a Retd. Chief Electrical Engineer of Govt of Orissa
with Er.K.C.Jena. a retired G.M. of SOUTH CO. as the convener.
The
first seminal of this cell on “ENERGY CONSERVATION MISSION” is being
organized on the 9th October 2004, at Brahmapur under the
auspicious of BLC-IEI and will be inaugurated by the Hon’ble Minister of
Energy Sri Suryanarayan Patro of Govt. Orissa as the Chief Patron of this
Energy Conservation Mission Cell. The various Dos and Don’ts that will
emerge out of this seminar will be published and passed for the benefit of
this state in general through esteem members of various domestic as well
as industrial users of energy making them fully aware and knowledge of the
importance of energy conservation and updating their knowledge in future,
from time to time.
The BLC-IEI has today a little more than 300 corporate
member besides around equal number of Associates and other Senior
Technicians and Technician Members. Presently this center is functioning
in the premises of the Uma Charan Pattanaik Engineering School at
Khodasinghi Berhampur, A proposal for transfer of a portion of unused
peace of land of UCP Engineering School since inception 1956, facing
serious threat from public encroachment is under the consideration of the
Govt. duly forwarded by the principal for construction of a permanent
building of this local center of IEI duly forwarded by the I.E.I Head
Office. The BLC-IEI will be celebrating its 9th foundation day
on 3rd November 2004, which is a continuous annual feature.
Added of the other existing technical events mentioned above a new
technical event known as the “WORLD HABITAT DAY 2004” will be
celebrated from this session of 2004 on the first Monday of October each
year as declared by UNO, failing this year as the 4th of
October 2004 duly communicated by the IEI HQS. |
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